I used to be the same way. I hated "natural" scrolling. Then I got an iPad, and started using it a bunch. After a week or so I found myself adapted to the "natural" scrolling by accident, and caught myself a few times scrolling the wrong way on my MBP trackpad until I gave in and rechecked that box in System Preferences.

That's the thing, if you're driving in a city, which is by definition full of people, who are known to be irrational, stupid beings, the onus of caution is on you. No one likes walking and having to be constantly afraid of traffic. No one likes walking half a block out of their way, waiting at a crosswalk, then walking back another half a block to get to a place directly across the street from them. Streets are not just for cars. Cars don't own that space, as much as the law would like to make it that way.

If you're driving in the city and there is a chance you can't react in time to avoid a collision with a pedestrian, whether by law they are supposed to be there or not, you are driving too fast. Slow down. If that means you have to drive at 10 mph, then maybe you should reconsider owning and driving a personal car in the city, unless you absolutely need it for your job and not just personal convenience.

It just doesn't make any sense to me. Throw out your flash drives, your external HDDs, your Ethernet switch, your wired keyboard, your printer, but feel free to hang on to your mangled EarPods you got when you bought an iPhone 2 years ago.

Nothing gives anyone the right to speed in a city. Nothing gives anyone the right to blame a pedestrian for a collision. You, as the driver, assume full responsibility for the damage you cause with your 2000lb speed machine.

If you want to drive and speed, I hear there are a lot of houses in the suburbs.

the Office 2011 installer is one of the shittiest I've ever seen. It craps a metric fuckton of little files into these directories, one of the plist files contains the license key (hashed of course). I've done this with much success many times.

You could also delve into these directories and copy the specific plist file that contains the license, but it's really not worth the time. Copy the directories over and run MS Auto Update to get everything up to date and you should be good to go.

Not sure why I found your post with 0 points. This is probably the best modern alternative to getting one of the beige beasts. They aren't ALPS switches, since they stopped making them, but they are based and practically copied off of the Salmon ALPS which made the keyboards awesome.

I've always thought about buying one but I'm not sure how close they are to the original, and I'd rather spend $50 on ebay for something I know than $100+ on something I don't. I wish they sold sample switch boards so I could try it out.

I'd buy one. I have an AEK1 at work, but my home Mac is sadly still stuck with a slim Apple keyboard with scissor switches (still not a bad keyboard, not by a long shot, my favorite non-mech to type on).